Marguerite Duras Movies

By the sea, a brother and sister face each other in the villa where they grew up. They haven't seen each other in a long time, and they meet again...

Reflections (in voice-over) by Marguerite DURAS on toys "the most beautiful are those you see behind the window", children's relationship with toys,...

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is...

'The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn't matter. (...) During this...

‘Mulher a Mulher’ is a Portuguese TV show dedicated to the condition of women that aims to demystify gender prejudice. Its last programme...

A woman watches and speaks to a man as he moves through a house by the sea. She observes his presence and tracks his shifting distance from her.

Broadcast once a month, Dim Dam Dom was a TV variety show on the second channel of French public television agency ORTF made up of a series of short...

In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée,...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the letters, about the poetess’s Jewish past, while the...

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...

The Malady of Death is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras's story of the same name: her text comprises the voiceover, which is a particular reading of...

From the deserted halls and corridors of the Gaumont-Palace cinema in Paris, memories of the great films that inhabited it before its demolition...

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...

Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.

25 years ago, Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81. At the evocation of this name, one spontaneously thinks of the intellectual superstar...

Marguerite Duras still has much to tell us about her words and about her silences. In this film, hers is the only voice we hear. She talks about...

Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of...